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Whatever grabs my curiosity, often: Education, burnout, religion, and the permanent crisis of knowledge. Goes out every now and then.
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How I uncovered a prolific AI author in religious magazines (opens the original)
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One evening this summer I lay on the couch to read the print issue of Commonweal, a century-old Catholic magazine I adore and occasionally write for. I turned to a short essay (archived here) by an author whose name I didn’t recognize. A couple paragraphs in, the author wrote of his aged, dying grandmother, “Her silence wasn’t empty. It had weight.”My mental AI detector fired. That negative parallelism, “it’s not this, it’s that,” especially when it lands with a monosy
An art and attention bibliography (opens the original)
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There are now “thousands” of subscribers to this newsletter. Thank you for your continued interest! I wish I could post more often. If you’re new to this newsletter, maybe you would like to click this button:Subscribe nowI recently started an Instagram account devoted to my teaching and writing: @jonathan_malesic_author. I invite you to follow me there, where I’ll likely post more often. So far, I’ve been documenting m
A letter to new college students (repost) (opens the original)
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[A quick introduction: My name is Jonathan Malesic, and I’m the author of The End of Burnout and of numerous articles on education for the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Commonweal, America, and so on. (Links to everything I’ve written are here.) I also teach first-year writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. My next book, Dear Student: Letters on Life and Learning in College<
Humanities research should continue, actually (opens the original)
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You’ve heard of The Odyssey — the movie based on the ancient epic poem that received new attention after University of Pennsylvania classics professor Emily Wilson published a new translation in 2017. In other words, this movie, this huge, money-making cultural event, which is thrilling nerds and jocks alike from sea to wine-dark sea, would not exist without recent humanities research and publication.The purpose of research in humanities fields like classics, literature, musicology, history, art
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